Canyonlands National Park

Dead Horse Point Panorama

Apr

2010

April 17, 2010

Here is the promised panoramic version of the Dead Horse Point at sunrise. The full version is comprised of 8 vertical images, measuring approximately 32 megapixels with an aspect ratio of 2:1.

All 8 shots were taken in Manual mode at f/8 and 1/10th of a second, ISO 200. Whenever you shoot panoramic images, always remember to switch to full manual mode to get identical exposure. You do not want your shutter speed or your aperture to change when you move from one point to another and shooting in manual will always yield consistent results for stitching software. Do not forget to disable Auto ISO as well – you want to keep your ISO at the lowest value for the best image quality. I will explain all of the above in a detailed “howto” that I’m currently working on.

Filed Under: Digital Photography Tagged With: Canyonlands National Park, Landscapes, Panorama, State Parks, Utah

Trip to Utah – Part 2

Mar

2010

March 28, 2010

By Nasim Mansurov 16 Comments

This is the second part of my trip log to Utah.

As we wrapped up Arches, we headed up to Canyonlands National Park while the weather was still OK. Afternoon at Canyonlands turned out to be rather productive and the sky got filled up with some gorgeous multi-layered clouds:

Love those clouds! We snapped a few pictures with the clouds on the way up:

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Filed Under: Digital Photography Tagged With: Canyonlands National Park, DSLR Video, Landscapes, National Parks, Utah

Back from Utah

Mar

2010

March 15, 2010

By Nasim Mansurov 10 Comments

I’m finally back from Utah after a 7 hour drive from Moab. To get home before midnight, Sergey and I left a little early and missed the last sunset. The weather sucked during the last two days (we had 3.5 days total), so we only had a day and a half of good shooting. Nevertheless, I managed to snap 25 gigs of images, but I already know that most photos are going to be deleted. This was the first time when I tried shooting HDR panoramas in three rows and processing those images is going to be a very long and painful process. We only had time to check out some good spots at Arches and Canyonlands, although we did visit a couple of good spots for photography in the area.